Robot Swarming over the internet

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates cooperative robot control over the internet, enabling remote swarming with reliable data exchange and real-time coordination across geographically distributed testbeds.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach for robot swarming control over large-scale internet networks, ensuring reliable communication and coordination.

Findings

Robots successfully follow a leader in remote testbeds.

No packet loss observed during data exchange.

Transfer delays remain within acceptable limits.

Abstract

This paper considers cooperative control of robots involving two different testbed systems in remote locations with communication on the internet. This provides us the capability to exchange robots status like positions, velocities and directions needed for the swarming algorithm. The results show that all robots properly follow some leader defined one of the testbeds. Measurement of data exchange rates show no loss of packets, and average transfer delays stay within tolerance limits for practical applications. In our knowledge, the novelty of this paper concerns this kind of control over a large network like internet.